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Chana Widawski

…I am both green and greeneh. Chana Widawski, a social worker, leads local park and community programming, educational trips around the globe, and works with survivors of abuse and violence….

Following Our Cycling Foremother: Spinning Fiction on Two Wheels

Karen Skinazi

…I think I am cycling through a cheering crowd and waving my arm in gratitude. Annie Kopchovsky, better known by her alias, Annie Londonberry. Since reading Chana Widawski’s Lilith post…

A Lady and Her Bicycle

Chana Widawski

…world, and capable of anything. Chana Widawski, LMSW, chairs her block association, stewards her local park and leads educational travel programs around the globe. She works with survivors of…

A Lady and Her Bicycle

by Chana Widawski

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…of Exile, about anti-Israelism in academe. Returning to the Garden by Chana Widawski Outside New York, Toronto, and Baltimore, Jews are farming in communities that merge ecology and social justice….

Modest Hasidic Girls

by Susan Sapiro

…told Chana in Yiddish, ‘When you become a boy, you’ll understand.’ Everyone laughed, including Chana and Mrs. Silver.” Hasidic girls are taught that their modesty, explained as the obligation to…

Mrs. Akiva Speaks

by Yochi Brandes, translated from the Hebrew by Ilana Kurshan

…earlier, I need to spend five days a week working as a laundress from dawn to dusk, otherwise I will not be able to support Chana. That first week we…

Stitching for Survival: the Story of Holocaust Survivor Trudie Strobel

Yona Zeldis McDonough

…Chana had been murdered in Auschwitz; Leo had survived. But before he passed on, Leo had bequeathed the memory of Chana to Trudie, and now Trudie would share it with…

The “Mechanic Shop Femme” on Making the Car World Inclusive and Fun

Mikhal Weiner

…a child, knew she’d be working with cars in the first place. Photo credit: Chana Milchtein Were you always passionate about cars? Actually, I didn’t know anything about cars —…

Democratizing Pleasure in the Frum Bedroom

Arielle Silver-Willner

…businesses and creators are building sex-toy enterprises on Jewish principles. In 2018, Chana Boteach— daughter of Shmuley Boteach author of the 1998 bestseller Kosher Sex—launched the sex toy company Kosher…